Mother arrested for alleged kids fight role

An Oak Ridge mother was charged with child abuse Friday after encouraging her daughter to fight another child.

by Beverly Majors/Staff

An Oak Ridge mother was charged with child abuse Friday after encouraging her daughter to fight another child.

Oak Ridge School Resource Officer Sherill Selby arrested 35-year-old Amanda Dale McPeters of Valley Forge Drive. She was taken to the Anderson County jail where she was released on a $5,000 bond.

Records said an Oak Ridge High School employee told SRO Selby that McPeters’ daughter was in a fight outside of a market at 400 N. Illinois Ave. on April 2. After investigating the incident, Selby learned McPeters drove her juvenile daughter to the market and then “allowed and encouraged” her to fight another female juvenile.

Records said McPeters stood by her vehicle and yelled to her daughter several times to “hit her, stop talking and hit her.”

Records said the woman didn’t try to stop the fight or call the police. When confronted by a witness and a store manager, who asked her to stop the fight, McPeters reportedly became disorderly and confrontational, yelling and cursing the manager.

“By the defendant neglecting her child, she knowingly and willingly placed her daughter in danger and inflicted her daughter with injuries,” records said.